Assembled a Del Ton AR 15, had them put the Peace Corps logo on it

I went by Skeletor's suggestion and got an AR 15 kit from Del Ton. I had a friend come to my house and help me build it, since I'd never done anything like that before. It took us a few hours, since we had to build the lower reciever from individual components.

Del Ton will put a free laser etching on the stripped lower so I had them put a Peace Corps logo on it.

I had bought some M16A1 surplus parts, and mounted the triangular had guard, and the A1 pistol grip, on the rest of the rifle. So it has a bit of a retro look to it.

P.S. I'm not saying that staking isn't important, but I think the "yours isn't good enough" games I see all over the gun forums are just ridiculous.

were did i say any thing about not good enough? I just make sure the Bolt carrier group was staked. Check out SWAT the gun rag they featured an AR that had 32000+ rounds down it and only basic extractor and spring replacement and similar done to it. all they did was add SLIP 2000 EWL and wipe down the BCG .

A couple weeks ago I met a friend at an outdoor range and he helped me zero the rifle at 100 yards. It was the first time that I fired prone out to that kind of distance, since most of my competitive shooting that I do is with pistols. I initially had a hard time maximizing my accuracy as I had to learn how to shoot prone and maximize stability of the firearm. My groupings got tighter the more I tried, although my grouping with this AR was a lot tighter than I ever got with my mini 14. I experimented with different ammunitions, including Remington .223, Wolf, Armscor USA, some green tip my friend had, and a few match grade cartriddges.

We ended up adjusting the sights on both rifles a little bit, but I'm sure that I still have a lot of practice to do before I can say that I really did a good job of zeroing the rifles.